Hi
I've got exactly the same problems as you, on FreeBSD 4.x (4.8 right now).
I still use v1.1 (I tried v1.0 before, and more recently v1.2beta1)
In fact, disconnections happen when the upload rate becomes too high for
several minutes (even about 8Kbps!!), and the worst is that, sometimes, the
modem loses power.
Then, I need to reboot the server, because unplug/replug does not work at all.
I had to make a script to check the connection, re-connect or reboot the server
if re-connection fails 3 times.
This let me think that the problem comes from hardware. It first thought
it was because of PPPOA2 driver, SpeedTouch driver (I also tried the
Alcatel .dll file from Windows!), or FreeBSD's USB daemon.
The last thing is this f***king VIA chipset on my mother board (or the
motherboard itself: K7T266A), and I've heard that not enough power was
given to the modem when it needs it (and that's why it switchs off
sometimes).
Check what chipset you have.
Anyway, I'm quite fed up with all this, and I'm going to change to
motherboard+nForce2 chipset, or a better Ethernet modem/router.
Hope this helps.
Jeremy
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:10:37AM +0100, Douwe Kiela wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I keep having weird problems with my speedtouch ADSL modem. After a certain
> amount of time, my connection dies out. You'd say that I could just unplug
> and replug the modem, and it should work again, or that I should reboot
> (which I do now). But I run this box as a server, so every reboot or
> connection die-out results in server downtime, which I would prefer
> not-to-have :D
>
> When the connection died out, top shows these processes, amoung others
> ofcourse:
>
> 63612 root -6 -20 1028K 500K usbsyn 0:00 0.00% 0.00% pppoa2
> 177 root 0 0 952K 200K ugenri 0:00 0.00% 0.00% modem_run
> 183 root 0 -20 1032K 260K ugenrb 0:18 0.00% 0.00% pppoa2
> 182 root 0 -20 1028K56K ugenwb 0:16 0.00% 0.00% pppoa2
>
> every now and then pppoa2 goes to the top of 'top', and shows like this:
>
> 63632 root -6 -20 1028K 500K usbsyn 0:00 1.00% 0.05% pppoa2
>
> The PID keeps going up, after the connection died out.
>
> I run this system:
>
> arachna# uname -a
> FreeBSD virtus.ath.cx 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #1: Thu May 1 20:02:48
> CEST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARACHNA i386
>
> My modem_run version is: modem_run version 1.2-beta1, but I updated to
> 1.2-beta1 because I was having the same kind of problems with previous
> versions (1.0 and up).
>
> The box works perfectly, it's a 200 Mhz Pentium II, 64 MB, 2 GB HDD with
> enough space, the only problem is that my connection keeps dying out..
>
> Any ideas on this are appreciated.. I hope you can help me with this
> problem.
> Please include me on the reply since I am not subscribed to this list.
>
> Regards,
> Douwe
>
>
>
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